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Register of burial charges (bier rental register), entry dated July 29, 1741 · Office of St. Stephen’s Parish, Vienna · Tomo 23, fol. 177v-178r.

The register of burial charges listed all the expenses arising for Vivaldi’s funeral. The conclusion to be drawn from the many items and the sum total of 19 florins and 45 kreutzer is that Vivaldi was considered to belong to the third class of the middle classes (»Dritte Class« des »Burger=Standes«) and therefore had a third-class funeral customary for that »Class«. The »Class« was deemed to comprise people in the following positions: »sowohl ansäßig=als auch unansäßige Stadt=Bediente als Gericht=Schreibere, Servi Curiae, und dergleichen, dann Künstlere, Handwerks=Meistere, und sonst weniger bemittelte Burgers=Leute oder Ansassen« (“resident and non-resident employees of the city, working as court scribes, servi curiae etc., artists, master craftsmen and less wealthy citizens or residents).
Vivaldi’s entry was as follows: »Conduct / Der wohl Ehrwürdige / Herr Antoni Vivaldi, / welt[licher] Priester, ist in / Satleri[schen] Haus beym Kar- / ner Thor an In[n]er[lichen] Brand / bschaut worden, alt 60 / Jahr, in Spitaller Gotts / acker. / Kleingleüth ... 2,36 / Herrn Curaten ... 3,- / Bahrtuch ... 2,15 / Pfarrbild ... -,30 / Grabstell ... 2,- / Bahrleicher und Mesner ... 1,15 / Kirchendiener ... -,30 / 6 Trager mit mantl ... 4,30 / 6 Windlichter ... 2,- / 6 Kuttenbuben ... -,54 / Bahr ... -,15 / Pelican / S[umma] 19,45 [19 Gulden und 45 Kreuzer]« [Funeral procession / The Hon. Mr. Antonius Vivaldi, secular priest, who died of pulmonary gangrene at the age of 60, was seen by the coroner at the Waller House next to the Carinthian Gate was buried in the graveyard of the civic hospital. Ringing bells … 2.36 / Curate … 3.00 / Shroud … 2.15 / Parish picture … 0.30 / Rack … 2.00 / Bier rental and sexton … 1.15 / Sacristan … 0.30 / 6 bier bearers in coats … 4.30 / 6 lanterns … 2.00 / 6 altarboys … 0.54 / Bier … 0.15 / Pelican / Sum total 19.45 [19 florins and 45 kreuzer =  approx. € 600] «